Opinion Digests

A defendant sentenced to probation after a DUI conviction, who was not served with a Dec. 28, 2015, warrant on a misdemeanor charge of brandishing a firearm, cannot be charged with a probation violation after he faced a new charge ...

A public school academic coach can sue defendant school officials for defamation and harm to her reputation for discontinuing her involvement in Standards of Learning testing after reporting an “inconclusive” result of an investigation into SOL testing irregularities; however, the ...

A school employee who took medical leave and leave to care for her husband, and who was not excused for all the leave she took, has not shown that her absence from work for over two months was a pretext ...

A plaintiff who alleges defendant failed to note on a credit report that a debt was disputed has not alleged she suffered any damages and has no standing to sue under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, says an Alexandria ...

A software sales and marketing professional who alleges he worked over five years for a startup company and received only $78,583 in actual compensation, with reimbursement for expenses, prior to being terminated as its chief sales officer, has stated claims ...

May 23, 2017Comments Off on Court Dismisses Health-Insurance Robocall Complaint

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff’s suit alleging an automatic phone call to his cell phone from a government contractor to alert him of a deadline for purchasing health care insurance under the Affordable Care Act, violated the Telephone ...

May 23, 2017Comments Off on FCA Claim Sticks Against Security Contractor

In a case remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court, the 4th Circuit says the federal government properly alleges a claim under the False Claims Act with allegations that defendant contractor billed the government on a contract to provide security at ...

A defense contractor wins summary judgment in this FMLA suit filed by a former senior director who took medical leave for severe injuries to his hand from falling off his roof; the 4th Circuit says plaintiff was restored to an ...

May 23, 2017Comments Off on ‘Willful Blindness’ Instruction OK’d for Stolen Goods

At defendant’s trial on charges arising from his participation in an illegal operation fencing over-the-counter medications and health and beauty products stolen by drug addicts and resold through a warehouse operation, the 4th Circuit upholds the trial court’s decision to ...

The 4th Circuit vacates an $11,747,510 judgment in a class action suit alleging defendant Experian Information Solutions Inc. failed to list a defunct credit card company, rather than the name of its servicer, as a source of information on a ...